From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCmwI-000096-BR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:05:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1P057Z9018325; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:05:07 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1P056fu024329 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:05:06 GMT Received: from 176-1-235-201.fibertel.com.ar ([201.235.1.176] helo=[192.168.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1FCmvp-0001mu-Ux for gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:05:06 +0000 Message-ID: <43FF9F32.1030807@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:05:06 -0300 From: Gustavo Zacarias User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060217) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Re: 2.6 kernel References: <4BB1E365BF26D311914A00805FA6A1C11FCD20BD@admsrvnt02.enet.sharplabs.com> In-Reply-To: <4BB1E365BF26D311914A00805FA6A1C11FCD20BD@admsrvnt02.enet.sharplabs.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 993a150c-4eae-472c-bcc5-8529f0860778 X-Archives-Hash: d74f5b6d2d75a4e2477723c0f24caa13 Longman, Bill wrote: > That doesn't mean you can't play with it, though. Just pull it down and > compile it. It's rather frustrating, but it's good practice, no? Who doesn't > like compiling kernels on a 166MHz SPARC? > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc" emerge -f --oneshot gentoo-sources > > should get you the latest 2.6.15-r5. Tweak command line as needed for other > versions. Please don't use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, it's generally bad, you've got package.keywords (man 5 portage) as a better solution. That said 2.6 kernels don't work fine in the stability department, lately it seems only SBUS-based machines are the ones affected. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/sparc/sunhw.xml is a work in progress hardware compatibility list where you can check how things are going on the 2.6 front. Of course it's still incomplete and feedback is welcome. Don't say "excellent stability on X" unless you really did extensive tests. -- Gustavo Zacarias Gentoo/SPARC monkey -- gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org mailing list